The WOFOYO Podcast
The WOFOYO Podcast
Pain Is Weakness Leaving The Body.
What if Jesus’ most practical gift to us wasn’t an escape hatch, but a prayer that we’d be protected and made strong right in the thick of life? We open John 17 and sit with the startling line that reframes everything: “I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.” From that anchor, we explore how sanctification actually works—steady, scriptural, and honest—and why reading the Bible in context guards us from both performative suffering and prosperity shortcuts.
We swap the escape mindset for an endurance mindset. Along the way, we draw on Paul’s raw résumé from 2 Corinthians—beatings, shipwrecks, sleepless nights—to show how weakness becomes the doorway for Grace, not a personal failure to hide. Expect resistance when you take ground. That friction can purify motives, clarify calling, and produce the kind of joy Jesus promises. We also get candid about relationships under pressure: hurt people hurt people. A simple, conversational prayer life like Jesus models keeps the heart soft while the will stays strong, so trials don’t turn us into the very thing we’re fighting.
By the end, you’ll have a clearer picture of what it means to be set apart by truth, how to spot teaching that twists context, and why daily reps in the word build spiritual stamina like nothing else. Protected, not removed. Growing, not coasting. If you’ve been praying to get out, maybe it’s time to pray to get through—and to find the victory waiting on the far side of endurance.
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Just finished up. Getting ready to go to a prayer meeting. Hopefully, catch a nap during the downtime. But people just won't let you be. In times like these, it helps to be armed. You don't want some flimsy run-of-the-mill kitchen knife. No, sir. You want the best. You want a store from St. Peter's knife work. They're sturdy, they're hand-forged, and easily concealed. Peter started making fishing knives as a young man for his family and business partners, and it grew into a pack. Well, it's a well-known fact that Peter had beat out Malchus to win the Gethsemane episode of Forged and Fire before the Lord decided to put his earbag on, and it was overturned on a technicality. So when you need to protect yourself and the boss, make sure you use the best. Use St. Peter's knife work. Branches in Capernaum, Rome, and Jerusalem. They can even take care of roosters, too. Been thinking about what to bring up next. Waiting for some divine moment where the light shines down and illuminates the Bible verse, and this is what you shall tell my people. Yep. And I kept on waiting. But I tell you one verse that did pop out just during my daily Bible reading and stuff. Over in John 17. I love that chapter so much and what Jesus is praying. They then ended up reading that one twice. Man, this is right before it all goes down. John chapter 17. We'll start at verse 13 and we will go through verse 21. And he's praying for the disciples. And you're going to find out in this verse or this passage. And you're going to find out in this passage. So there's some power there. If you have Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the living word, is praying for you and I that's an eternal prayer. That's something that that has power. It has a lasting effect. It will never ever lose its relevance. So verse 13. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world so that they may have my joy made full in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them away from the evil one. Little footnote here in my NASB. Also says another translation way to translate it would be, but to keep them away from evil, or to keep them from harm would be another way of saying it. But this translates it from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctifier, set them apart in the truth. Your word is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, I also send them into the world, and for their sakes I sanctify or set apart myself, so that they themselves may also be sanctified in truth. It's interesting here before we finish this out. Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth. So we're to be sanctified in the word. Why is it important to get in the word for yourself and not just a little five-verse passage in your daily devotional with the flowers and the potpourri look to it? How do you get set apart? What sets you apart? Well, it's knowing and doing the word. Get in the word for yourself so you can be sanctified and let the word and the Holy Spirit do their work in you and sanctify you. But we also talked before it's not necessarily only about what you've been set apart from, but it's been what you've set apart to do and your calling. So keep that in mind. Verse 20. I'm not asking on behalf of these alone, but also for those who believe in me through their word. So that bones at you and me and everybody listening, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe. Uh the footnote here says, continually believe that you sent me. And I just want to focus, although we focused on a couple things already. The one that popped out at me in this awesome passage of scripture. Verse 15, I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them away from the evil one, or to keep them away from evil.
SPEAKER_00:The NIV here says protect them from the evil one. Yep. Keep them from harm. Yep. Which I which I think is interesting. Um how many times do we pray and we ask God to take us out of a situation? Or pray that we don't need to go through a situation, or or whatnot. And maybe our prayer should be that uh that the Lord bring us through the situation. Maybe the the better prayer is like Jesus is praying here that we be that we be protected and brought through because there's actually, I think there's a there's a victory on the other side. Amen. And um that's easy. I I'll be the first to admit, very easy to forget uh in the midst of the trial and tribulation. Uh because trial and tribulation, there's a lot of pain and pressure and discomfort. Yeah, all the things that the flesh doesn't like. So it's very easy to to to ask the Lord to take us out. Matter of fact, Jesus even asked the Lord, uh, Lord, take this cup from me, uh, but your will be done. Yeah, not as I will, that will be done. That's right. So even Jesus himself um had that thought in his mind that I would I would I would rather not do this if I don't have to. Um, however, I know I got to. So, yeah, maybe we should be praying to uh be brought through the trial and tribulation rather than to avoid the tribulation.
SPEAKER_02:Granted, it was fiction, there was a movie. It was a miniseries, and if you look who is written by, dude's a heck of a writer. I don't think he's that great of a human being at all. Uh definitely disagree on a lot of stuff with him, you know. But Stephen King wrote a book way back in the day called The Stand. Yeah, and it was about God's people versus the devil's people, and they had a plague wiped out 99% of humanity, and there were some interesting characters in there. It was an interesting look at faith. Right. And not just when everything's going good, but when things are hitting the fan, do you really have what it takes? And there's a there was a lady in there called Mother Abigail. I'm 116 years old and still make my own bread. Ruby D played in the original miniseries. Here's this old black woman from Nebraska praying, Lord, if you remove this cup, I pray the same thing that like your son, remove this cup from me. She said, probably get the same answer too.
SPEAKER_00:She knew.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah. But but that's perfectly natural. But I was I was over in Independence, Missouri. Uh, had had to do some stuff here that this weekend. By the way, had one killer breakfast. Let me highly recommend. If you ever come across a chain called the Black Bear Cafe, I know I think they might have one around St. Charles, Missouri. I'm not sure, but they have one in Independence. Uh they started out around California, so they're more out west. They have something called the bread pudding French toast.
SPEAKER_00:Unreal. Two things I like bread pudding and French toast.
SPEAKER_02:Well, in addition, there's a dessert that I got exposed to down in New Orleans called Bananas Foster. So it's like they made a loaf out of the bread pudding, then they sliced it, did the French toast thing with it, butter, pecans, uh, some caramel, and some bananas with some hot syrup, a little bit of whipped cream on the side. So it tasted like bread pudding, it tasted like French toast, and it tasted like Bananas Foster. Just hints of it, you know, depending on how. But it was unreal. Now, that being said, the reason I bought this up was as we're getting ready to go eat breakfast, uh, me and my buddy falling out of this hotel, and there is uh Hispanic girl with an Army t-shirt. And uh, so she was either the wife of a soldier or soldier herself. And it had something very pertinent to this conversation. Not that the the French toast was not pertinent, but it was good. The t-shirt was an age-old saying that bones, I know you and I are familiar with. Pain is weakness leaving the body.
SPEAKER_01:Mm-hmm.
unknown:Yep.
SPEAKER_02:Probably what we'll title this episode with a capital B pain is weakness leaving the body. When you're getting smoked, when you're having to go through the suck, when you're going through the training and it hurts, and you're miserable and you're tired, and you're learning how to operate in exhaustion. This thing that Jesus prays here, I'm not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them away from the evil one. He's praying for us to grow. Right. How do you grow? Well, you got to go through these hardships. Well, I'm and I'll tell you one of the things that we were talking about just kind of beforehand, because we really didn't, it's been a busy week for me, and I haven't really had time to just have our discussions like we normally do. I didn't give you a whole lot of, hey, let's look this up. Let's really discuss this because it is kind of on the fly, but we talked about it for a couple minutes before we, you know, booted up. But I remember growing up Catholic, and I'll say this with all the love and respect that you know that is due. Uh, I remember my German Catholic grandmother going on and on. Our sufferings for Christ and our sufferings for Christ. Now, don't get me wrong. As long as it's not self-induced, then it's commendable. Right. But you can make a religion out of the sufferings and just bring about a whole bunch of unnecessary suffering upon yourself, thinking that you're being virtuous. I've seen people do this with poverty. Oh, I'm being poor. Well, you're also doing bad habits that are causing you to be poorer than you would necessarily need be. It's not you're not poor because you're persecuted or because you lack some ability. You're poor because you make bad decisions with money andor time, or usually some of those big contributors. However, the flip side of that is if you just give a tithe in this offering and that offering, then you'll be blessed and you'll be a millionaire and you'll get a thousand-fold return on this and that, and just twisting the word to make it say things that it doesn't. And we've known folks that have operated in financial abundance that you know worked, but it was never their doctrine. Right. The folks that were actually operating where the Lord just supernaturally provided, and I've had him supernaturally provide for me at times. Bones, I know you have too. But to make a big doctrine and a whole movement out of that, just like the comfort and the self-awareness and self-fulfillment and actualization gospel, you're twisting the word to make it say something that it doesn't really say. You're you're cherry-picking verses to make a doctrine out of it. So there has to be a balance. And I believe one of the ways you can measure the balance, you know, again, you got to get in the word, but is what you're going through causing you to grow? Right. Right.
SPEAKER_00:You know, there's another saying in the military too, pain purifies. Yeah. Pain purifies. Um, I like to tell my guys that uh pain hurts, but you rarely die from it. Uh that was one of the things that kind of motivated us a lot. Was pain hurts, but you rarely die from it.
SPEAKER_02:The old Nietzsche, uh, that which does not kill you make you strong will make you stronger.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. That's kind of what what it takes off of. Um, there's another another proverb-esque kind of thing, too, in that um people who are hurting hurt people. Yes, they do. So we see that sometimes too, um, even as believers, as we're going through those trials and tribulations, how are we acting? How are we acting? How are we reacting? How are we treating other people uh while we're going through those trials and tribulations? Um we we definitely we definitely should be growing, but how how is it shaping us and how are we treating other people? Are we are we hurting other people? Uh are we sharing the hurt by hurting other people? Uh I think we do that a lot sometimes. I know I do. Uh and I do it without even realizing it until it's too late and I have to do some apologizing. Yeah. Um, or are we taking it in stride and letting the chips fall where they may and thanking the Lord for it the whole time? Um, I rarely do that. Uh, because me and the Lord gotta have words first. Um, I haven't uh I haven't learned my lesson and all of that stuff yet. I'm still walking this one out. Um I like where Jesus says in verse uh for them I sanctify myself that they too may also be truly sanctified. So uh I like the fact here that Jesus sanctifies himself so that we may be sanctified. Um and what that means is um as long as Jesus is sanctified, uh we'll be sanctified, we'll be set apart, we'll we'll have all the benefits that he has. Um but we also have to have that relationship with him. We don't get the benefits of Jesus Christ simply because we read the Bible, but we have to maintain that that relationship uh with him. And I think uh this uh this passage right here, this prayer is a really, really good example of it. The way that he's talking to the Father here is just uh so simple.
SPEAKER_02:I love it.
SPEAKER_00:It's very simplistic. You can hear a literal conversation here. Uh he's he he sounds like he's talking to a friend, he sounds like he's talking to someone sitting right next to him. Uh like like Frank would tell us, you know, talk to talk to the Holy Spirit like he's right there in the room with you because he is.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um so I I can really see that, and I get that um as I read uh this chapter here. Um so Jesus says, if you've seen the Father, you've seen me, or if you see me, you've seen the Father, so on and so forth. So if we can get anything out of this example here, it really is a way to talk to Jesus.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. When you were talking about that, about the hurt people hurt people, hurting people hurt people. Uh I I flashed back and I also started to focus on verse 14 here. But we had a guy we worked with, and I just go what? Well, I will never forgive. I'll just never forget. And dude, just gets the thousand yards stare. And he was complaining about one time when we were standing roll call, people that put in to go home early, and old disco just flip flings them all over the roll call room. Ain't nobody going home. I gotta be here, you gotta be here. I'll never forget that. That out of all the things that we endured in our job, the one thing that that just has you been out of shape six years later is the fact that the guy running the shift threw a bunch of slips in the air and said, You ain't going home.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:It was actually kind of comical when he did it. No, it he did it on multiple occasions. I've I've seen him do it at least twice, you know, myself. And I'm just like, well, the the whole thing is if you didn't want to go to work, then don't go to work. Yeah. You know, because you showed up to work to work, right? Yeah. You know, uh anything go getting to go home early, granted you're using your time to go go home early, that's a gift.
SPEAKER_00:That's a that's a plus. It is, and and don't come to work expecting to get it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um that was uh that that was always a big thing. And if you if you had that expectation with no guarantee, but I set you up for failure. And it's the same thing will happen uh with the Lord too. Oh man. Um if you have an expectation from God and you don't have a promise, you're you're setting yourself up for a major, major letdown.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um, and that letdown will lead to resentment if you're not careful. Um, if you don't see it for what it is, the the fault there was was uh was in our buddy there. Uh the fault there is in ourselves when we when we put that much expectation on something without a promise.
SPEAKER_02:So Jesus is talking about sanctify them in your word, you know, by your word, thy word is truth. And that's one of the things. Why do we need to get in the word? Because it keeps us from those unrealistic expectations of you have a preacher on TV that's asking you for money, or you have a local preacher up in the pulpit that's trying to exert control. And when they start taking things out of context, because once you get in the word for yourself, context becomes really clear. Oh, yeah. When you start reading it without an agenda of trying to make it say what you want it to say, and you let the word work you rather than you try and manipulate and work the word, like a lot of seminaries will teach you how to do, man, it it will change you and it'll give you that context, and you'll preach be like, Can I get an amen? Be like me. I'll be like, Nope, because that ain't really what that's saying.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. You you'll develop the strength and the courage to understand that okay, that that one wasn't for me.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Uh that that word wasn't for me. Uh it was a good word, it wasn't for me.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Uh, you know. Or maybe it wasn't a good word. Or maybe it wasn't a good word. Definitely wasn't for me. Uh, but you'll be able to you'll be able to go on going about your business uh without without regret.
SPEAKER_02:Making scriptural football bats. Uh anyway, it's supposed to be used, man. But verse 14, I have given them the wor given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. So again, what do you expect? The whole thing of going into the world, like you said, you know, your last full episode we did was you're going into enemy territory. It's automatically a leadership dynamic because you're taking territory, you're you're doing kingdom stuff, but immediately there's going to be hostility. So expect it, but that very resistance is the thing that's going to get you to grow. We were looking up some passages and stuff, and the apostle Paul over in 2 Corinthians gets all into this method of growth, but the resistance that he gets. Second Corinthians 1 8 says, For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters. This is Paul talking, of our affliction which occurred in Asia, that we were burdened excessively beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. It gets right like they were gonna die. Yeah. That which doesn't that which doesn't kill you. Makes you stronger. Because he he come he he came out. Um he did come out stronger.
SPEAKER_00:Lieutenant Dick Winters and Band of Band Brothers, you know, we're airborne, we're supposed to be surrounded. You know, that's the mentality that the Christian believer has to have. Is that we're in enemy territory, we're supposed to be surrounded. You know, we're believers, we're supposed to be surrounded. Um if you're if you're not surrounded, if there's if there's no contention, if there's no trial, no tribulation, are you really in the fight?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Uh are you just in the rear with the gear?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that that'd be one thing you really gotta ask yourself. And I don't ask that ask that, you know, for the sake of going and picking fights. Uh but uh you know, uh as believers, we should be expecting uh uh spiritual warfare on a constant basis. We should be expecting trials and tribulations. Um we can also expect uh joy and peace uh in the midst of that too. Yeah. But uh yeah, man, you're a believer. You're supposed to be surrounded.
SPEAKER_02:Paul talks about in 2 Corinthians 11. We've covered this before. He's talking about all his credentials. But then it's funny what he gets to listen as actual credentials. Let's see, verse 22. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? I'm speaking as insane, I more so, than King James says as a fool. So he's getting a little facetious here, is what he's doing. In far more labors and far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death. Five times I received from the Jews 39 lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and day I spent adrift at sea. I have been on frequent journeys and dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, dangers among false brothers. I have been in labor and hardship through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. Apart from such external things, there's the daily pressure on me of the concern for all the churches. Who is weak without my being weak, who is led into sin with my without my intense concern? If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. In Damascus, the Ethnarch under Eretus, the king, was guarding the city of the Damascene in order to seize me, and I was let down a basket through a window in the wall, and so to escape his hands. We're just going to continue. Matter of fact, boasting is necessary, though it is not beneficial. But I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who 14 years ago, whether in the body I do not know or out of the body I do not know, God knows, such a man was caught up to third heaven. Paul's talking about himself. He's again, he's being facetious. He's being very, very humble. Yep. As well. And I know such a man, whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows, was caught up into paradise and heard inexpressible words which a man is not permitted to speak. For behalf of such a man, I will boast, but in my own behalf I will not boast except regarding my weakness, for I do not wish to boast, I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth, but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears in me. Because of the extraordinary greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh of flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from exalting myself. Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might leave me, and he has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore, I delight in my weaknesses in insults and distresses and persecutions and difficulties in behalf of Christ, for when I am weak, then I am strong. He's going, every time I get in something that's beyond my ability, the Lord is showing up. I will boast that I'm not able to do this for myself, but the anointing of God that is on me, and the Spirit of God within me, and Christ within me, is doing this. I mentioned that before in one of my shorts, I believe, that you know, one of the things that happens is you get in the word and you begin to know yourself, and then you know your limitations. And when you start to perform above your limitations, and not to be falsely humble, which is a form of pride, because I've again, there's balance here, because I've seen that be done. But when you're legitimately take a genuine assessment of yourself and you're letting the word point out, hey, here's your strengths, here's your weaknesses, here's where you need improvement, here's actually where you're gifted and called. When you have that assessment and you're honest about it, then the Lord really shows you when it's Him working through you rather than you just doing your own thing.
SPEAKER_00:You notice that uh Paul didn't lay out his pedigree of uh of education. Yep. He didn't lay out how smart he was, his intelligence. He didn't lay out his um priestly pedigree, he didn't lay out any of those things that we would probably list today. Uh, I've got a degree in this, a doctorate in that, uh, I've been ministering and preaching for this long. Uh um all the things that we typically do, uh, you know, all the the the pedigree stuff that preface our our our bio, you know, and stuff like that. Um Paul chose to lay out all the all the all the trials and tribulations that the Lord has brought him through, which I think is pretty interesting. He shows a great deal of humility here. I would like to think that Paul also knew there's probably not too many people that could boast that. Those in those tribulations, those trials and tribulations. Um, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe other disciples were facing just as many trials and tribulations. We just don't have them in the scriptures to read about them. Um, but uh he lays it all out there. And when you when we start reading that, uh, here in our day and age in the good old United States of America, and we're feeling trialed and tribulated against. Uh we're starting to feel the persecution, if you would. It helps when we read stuff like that, because now we can go, okay, maybe my my life ain't so bad. Um, my wife I went out today. That's that's that's about it. Uh, you know, um that was tough. Um, but I didn't get beaten with rods, you know. I didn't get uh 39 lashes on several occasions. Uh my life's not as bad as as it could be.
SPEAKER_02:So didn't get shot and killed in front of my wife and kids. No. Thousands of other people nationwide. No, none of that happened. Uh uh I think about I don't know why this one stands out, but you know, when they're doing that that hall of faith, you know, the rogue call of faith over in Hebrews 11, they're talking about certain prophets got sawn asunder. I believe that was Isaiah. Could be wrong. But they slew uh Zachariah between the porch and the altar. Zachariah, son of Barekiah. There's a price. Uh, but I out of all the martyrs and all the apostles that went out that were martyred, you know, uh Paul and Peter, both killed by Nero, um sentenced by Nero. The one that just stands out the most in my mind is is Thomas, and they ran him through with a spear in India. But all except John, and they and it wasn't for a lack of trying. All of the twelve, other than Judas, you know, who did himself in, but they were martyred. They tried their best, they boiled John in oil, they did all this other stuff. They tried. And it just didn't just didn't work.
SPEAKER_00:John lived through the boiling in oil. He made it through and and died a natural death uh later in life. But he was the only one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So they never did like fried chicken after that either.
SPEAKER_00:No, he had a hard time with it. Popeye, he you can't get him to eat Popeyes or nothing.
SPEAKER_02:I was looking something else. This is just off topic a little bit, but I was reading John's account of Peter's denial. John sneaks them in. Yeah. So a lot of the way it's portrayed in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, a little bit different than the way John portrays it. Oh, yeah, I knew the high priest. I was able to use that to get Peter in. So the first time he denies is actually getting in there. Here's the thing. Peter still, I'm I'm looking at this a little bit different. And uh I think Peter still has this idea of I'm gonna do this. I I think Peter still had one of them swords tucked.
SPEAKER_00:I think Peter, Peter may have had some kind of notion that he could save the day. Yeah. He could still pull it off, whether it's by whether it was by, you know, you know, with a weapon or or or whatnot, but I think yeah, I think he maybe he still he thought he could save the day until it got to a point where he knew he couldn't.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And then he's like, nah, I don't know nobody here.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. Yeah. Well, I mean, you and again, you see, he's willing to cut an ear off. Oh yeah. Yeah. Uh if his aim had been better, Jesus would have done even better miracles. Granted, he's doing it in the flesh, he's doing it carnally. But he's doing what he said he'd do. We need friends like Peter. Good, good to have. You know, I just want to encourage y'all, don't be shocked when the world treats you bad, but also know that until it's your time, it's not your time. Right. And that's pretty much what you have with Fox's book of martyrs. And if you look at what happened with Paul, you look at what happened with Jesus, oh, they they were going to cast him off the side of the hill, and he just passed through their mist because his time had not come. Now, when his time had come, then it was there, and he offered himself up. And same thing with Paul. Paul did all this stuff. Now, he went through some things, he labored more abundantly than they all. But if we're willing to endure the hardship as a good soldier, then we'll see results. But don't be trying to just have merely an escape mentality of, oh, if I could be out of this, if I could be out of this, you know, every time I go to the gym, I really don't want to be there. Guess what? If I consistently go to the gym, then the effect of being sore and all this other stuff, and sometimes the boredom of it seems less. I'm able to occupy my mind and get through it, but the result is I feel so much better, especially if I'm able to get about two, three weeks consistently in. All of a sudden, shirts feel a little bit better, you know, uh, got more stamina, wake up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to go. You know, Paul said, bodily exercise profits little. But it profits. How much more so spiritual spiritual exercise? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I wonder if we don't spend more time and energy sometime trying to get out of the work that we're called to do. Oh, geez. Than actually doing the work that we were called to do. Um and I say that facetiously because I know the answer. Um but we do. I I'm guilty of that. And there's there's a lot of times where I go into I go into my own place, my own place of work. Uh I go into my own daily life sometimes. Just want to get through the day. Uh I just want to get through the day. Um, and not even thinking about am I going to get through the day and accomplish what I need to get get done. Um, that's an escape, an escape mentality.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Uh can I just exist? I just want to exist. Can I just be here? Um and let the whole world blow up around me. I just want to be here though. I just I'll be okay. Just leave me alone. Um, that's an easy rut to fall into. Yeah. Uh I think when we fall into to that rut, um, we become we become indifferent uh to everyone else's struggle. We become indifferent to our own struggle. But it becomes very hard. Uh because like you said, when you just buckle down and do what you gotta do at the gym, or you you're no longer bored, uh you find that you your time goes by faster. Um and next thing you know, you're done, it's time to move on. But I think the same thing can be said in our in our daily walk. Oh, yeah. If we would just um if we just do what we're called to do and just just do it, then we wouldn't have near the trouble that we're having in our lives, I think. So and I I'll be honest, I I'm not I'm still walking that one out. Yeah because the flesh, the flesh is nasty. Um the flesh wants the path of least resistance, uh, it wants all those things that make life easy. Uh the flesh wants to hang on tightly to those comforts. Um, where the spirit says, no, you need to let them go. Yeah. You need to let them loose. So gotta be careful of that. Yep.
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